After SCOTUS Rejected His Final Appeal, Alabama Executes Man With Nitrogen Gas

“Tonight, Alabama caused humanity to take a step backwards,” Kenneth Smith said in his final statement.

Alabama on Thursday night became the first U.S. state to execute a person using nitrogen gas, killing 58-year-old Kenneth Smith by depriving his body of oxygen after the nation’s Supreme Court rejected his legal team’s last-ditch appeal. The state’s notoriously incompetent executioners, who tried and failed to kill Smith via lethal injection in 2022, strapped the condemned man to a gurney and...

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